Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

General Discussion

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Sun Jul 29, 2012, 05:27 PM Jul 2012

Minimum Wage Increase - Surely You Jest [View all]

To the GOP any talk of an increase in the minimum wage is a joke. A minimum wage is over regulation of business. We shouldn't have one. The "free market" is the only way to set wages and benefits. People will only take jobs that pay better. Don't you all on DU get the logic?

Labor laws kill jobs and profits. Get rid of all those nasty regulations and there will billions of new jobs. There will be a tsunami of new investment.

8 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Minimum Wage Increase - Surely You Jest [View all] TheMastersNemesis Jul 2012 OP

There was a study several years ago. Downwinder Jul 2012 #1

Hell, why pay people at all? RedStateLiberal Jul 2012 #2

What they get. Downwinder Jul 2012 #3

Damn, and I thought another day older and deeper in debt was bad enough. RedStateLiberal Jul 2012 #4

You betcha. And don't forget the billions of new jobs that will appear once this whole globalism Egalitarian Thug Jul 2012 #5

Everybody knows that if the minimum wage is raised.. Teamster Jeff Jul 2012 #6

And conventional wisdom said the world was flat. Downwinder Jul 2012 #7

Seems to me that the easiest way to refute that 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #8